Ahead of the Wednesday deadline to file nomination papers for November elections in Somerville, Ward 5 councilor Beatriz Gomez Mouakad has dropped out, a council candidate returns and a three-way mayoral race is shaping up.
Former Cambridge city councillor, mayor and state representative Alice Wolf, whose political career began in 1974, died Thursday after a brief battle with leukemia.
The Community Charter School of Cambridge in East Cambridge will not host polling locations for the Sept. 6 primary and Nov. 8 general election, voters were warned on Friday.